US and Saudi Arabia urge Sudan’s warring parties to agree new ceasefire

People board a bus to leave Khartoum, Sudan as fighting between the Sudanese Army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces intensified (AP/PA)

Saudi Arabia and the US have urged Sudan’s warring parties to agree to and “effectively implement” a new ceasefire as fighting showed no signs of abating in the northeastern African nation.

Sudan descended into chaos after fighting broke out in mid-April between the military, led by General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.